TOKYO, Sept. 17 (Xinhua) -- Japan on Tuesday condemned the use of chemical weapons in Syria after a UN report confirmed that sarin gas has been used in an attack in August near the Syrian capital Damascus.
Japan's Foreign Minister Fumio Kishida told a press conference here that Tokyo strongly condemns the use of chemical weapon in the Mideast country, saying it will closely watch developments at the United Nations and responses by the Syrian government on the U. S.-Russian agreement on Syria's chemical weapons.
On Sept. 14, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergey Lavrov announced that they agreed on a framework toward complete destruction of chemical weapons in Syria.
The accord asks the Syrian government to submit within one week a listing of its chemical weapons stockpiles and to allow access to international inspectors.
Kishida also called for a stop of violence in the country and starting political dialogue between relevant sides in Syria.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on Monday submitted to the UN Security Council a 38-page report, which concluded that several surface-to-surface rockets with sarin gas were used in the August attack.
However, the reported did not assign blames for the use of chemical weapons. The United States and its allies blamed the Syrian government for the attack, but the latter said opposition forces carried it out.
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